On Mon, 2019-02-25 at 04:43 -0800, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:42:36, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > On Sat, 2019-02-23 at 16:29 -0800, Steven Penny wrote: > > > I noticed that "python36" requires "binutils". > > > > This is needed for ctypes.util.find_library(). FWIW, on Linux, not > > only binutils is used, but also gcc. > > > > > Further, I noticed this dependency chain: > > > > > > python36 > libuuid-devel > pkg-config > libglib2.0_0 > > > > Until 3.7, the uuid stdlib module loads libuuid via ctypes, hence the > > dependency. In 3.7, there is a compiled binding, and so the -devel > > dependency was dropped. Also, pkgconf will soon be providing and > > replacing pkg-config, which will cause the glib2.0 dependency to be > > dropped. > > thanks. i was interested further in comparison so i took this file: > > https://python.org/ftp/python/3.6.8/python-3.6.8-embed-amd64.zip > > then use tar for fair comparison: > > tar -a -c -f python-3.6.8-embed-amd64.tar.xz python-3.6.8-embed-amd64
Did you look at the contents of that zip file? It's quite minimal, and therefore not a fair comparison at all. > and that doesnt include the other packages i previously discussed. so it > almost > makes more sense to not even use the cygwin version? Hardly, but discussing how/why *not* to use Cygwin is OT IMO. -- Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
